necessity; but I will say it !-the sterling of his honest worth poverty could not debase, and his independent British spirit oppression might bend, but could not subdue.' Thus, it is evident, this custom-house investigation embittered his peace, and aggravated those excesses which were soon to conduct him to an untimely grave!

We now come to the conclusion of the life of this illustrious poet. In Burns, upwards of a year before his death, there was an evident decline in his personal appearance; and though his appetite continued unimpaired, he was himself sensible that his constitution was sinking. From October, 1795, to the January following, an accidental complaint confined him to the house. A few days after he began to go abroad, he dined at a tavern, and returning home late one cold night from one of those scenes of unrestrained enjoyment, became benumbed: this was followed by an attack of rheumatism. His appetite now began to fail; his hands shook, and his voice faltered. In the month of June, 1796, he removed to Brow, in Annandale, to try the effects of sea-bathing. His anxiety for his family hung heavy upon

him; the more perhaps, from reflecting that he had not done them all the justice he was qualified to do; and when he alluded to their approaching desolation, his heart was touched with pure and unmingled sorrow. He returned to his house in Dumfries, on the 18th of July, 1796, and was no longer able to stand upright. On the second and third day after his arrival, his fever increased, and his strength diminished. On the fourth, the sufferings of this great genius were terminated.

A costly monument has been erected in the church-yard at Dumfries, over the remains of Burns; and another, in a style of much greater magnificence, was, on the 25th of January, 1820, the anniversary of his birth, founded near Alloway Kirk. If his countrymen had but applied half of the money which these trophies of his talent and his genius must have cost, to have snatched him from the fallen state of a Custom-house officer, they would probably have prolonged his invaluable life for some years hence.Scotland may have abundance of excisemen, but they will never again possess another BURNS.

THE MOST NOBLE, HIGH AND PUISSANT PRINCE,

ARTHUR,

DUKE, MARQUIS AND EARL OF WELLINGTON ;

Marquis Douro; Viscount Wellington of Talavera and of Wellington, and Baron Douro of Wellesley; Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter; Field Marshal of His Majesty's Forces; Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards (Blue;) one of his Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council; Colonel in Chief of the Rifle Brigade; Master General of the Ordnance; Governor of Plymouth; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath; Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order; Knight of the Order of St. Esprit of France; Prince of Waterloo; Grandee of Spain of the first class; Duke of Cindad Rodrigo; Marquis of Torres Vedras, and Conda de Vimiera in Portugal; Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, of the Royal Spanish Military Order of St. Ferdinand; Knight Grand Cross

of the Imperial Military Order of Maria Theresa, of the Imperial Russian Military Order of St. George, of the Royal Portuguese Military Order of the Tower and Sword; Knight of the Grand Order of the Black Eagle of Prussia; Knight Grand Cross of the Royal and Military Order of Sweden, of the Sword; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Elephant of Denmark, of William of the Low Countries, of the Annunciade of Sardinia, of Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, and of several others; Commander of the Forces of His Majesty the King of the Low Countries, and His Majesty the King of France and Navarre, &c. &c.

THIS celebrated Commander was born at Dengan Castle, in Ireland, on the 1st of May, 1769. He was the third son of Garret, Earl of Mornington. His mother was Anne, daughter of Viscount Duncannon. His Grace is brother to the present Marquis Wellesley, and Lord Maryborough. His Grace has two sons, Arthur, Marquis of Douro, born February 3d, 1807; and Charles

born January 16, 1808. The Wellesley family emigrated to Ireland in 1172, the first Irish ancestor being standard-bearer to Henry II.

At an early age he was sent to Eton; and, at the close of the American war, went to Angiers in France, in order that he might acquire the theory of military science in that celebrated school. After laying a good foundation of future observation and study, our hero received his first commission in the army as an Ensign in the 41st regiment, December 25, 1787 Lieutenant, 23d of January, 1788. June 30, 1791, he bore the rank of Captain in the 18th regiment of light dragoons; from which corps, on the 30th of April, 1793, he was appointed to the majority of the 33d regiment. On the 30th of September following, he became Lieutenant Colenel in the same regiment, by purchase. Lieutenant Colonel Wellesley was

now

engaged on active service, under his gallant countryman, the Earl of Moira; and early in 1794 proceeded to Ostend, being present at all the skirmishes in repulsing the French at Antwerp and Brussels. On the army evacuating Holland, Lieutenant Colonel Wellesley arrived in England, and was